The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-28
LAMAR VS., LoNGsTREET.

A portion of the Republican press of the
country object vehemently whenever q
Democratic administration selects for Office
eouthern man who was prominently iden-
titled with the late rebellion, and this ex-
n1bition of stultifed meanness was never
more conspicuous than in the rabid objec-
ton to L. Q. g. Lamar. Mr.. Lamar can
hardly be considereda soldier of the late
war. He did hold for q time a military
position, but whatever prominence he Sc
cured, and ii was not much at best, was in
other than in military fields. 1t will be
remembered that General James Long
street long ago was taken into the Repub-
hcan fold and given Federal Office. The
fact is not mentioned for the purpose of as
sailing the Republican party for giving
General Longstreet an Office, in so far as it
was the result of desire to restore har-
mony between the two sections of the
Union. If that was the purpose, or any
part of it, the act was in the highest degree
commendable, but it is proper for the
general reader to know something
about the antecedents of General
He is q native OF South Carolina, CAL
houn's State. he was educated at West
Point. AS a soldier he had won distinction,
and in 1858 had been promoted % Pay
master In the regular army, with the rank
OF Major, He was under the most solemn
obligations to remain loyal to the Union.
The Government had educated him aud
promoted him, and he was under oath to
stand by the flag. Such obligations did
not rest upon Mr.. Lamar, and yet the Re-
publican party takes Longstreet to its bo.
som while IL mathematics Mr.. Lamar.
In June, 1861, Major Longstreet resigned
his Office in the Union army and entered the
Confederate service. he renounced his al
legianoe to the stars and stripes the flag of
bis country, and accepted JEFF Davis as his
commander in.chief, and no man in the
Confederate service fought more heroically
once Brigade r.general. BE fought at Bull
Run in 1861. He fought the battle of Will
liamsburg; was in the battles of Seven
Pines, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm. He
was at the second Bull Run battle. He
fought at South Mountain and Antietam,
Fredericksburg and Charlottesville, at
Gettysburg and Chickamauga. He was in
the battle of the Wilderness and at Peters
burg. He was a member of the last coun-
Gil of war held by Lee, and held to the
Confederscy 10 the last. This man the
Republican party promptly embraced and
gave him lucrative Office. But when q
Democratic administration seeks to estab-
llsh by its acts recognition of restored
Union by naming L. Q, @. Lamar for q
high Office, for which he is eminently
qualified, the Republican press, at least q
portion OF It, sets up the howl about "red-
handed rebels" holding Office, etc. Level.
headed, honest Republicans Will readily
see through such partisan clap.trap.
1t so happens that General Lopgstreet
Republican. We Rave given his Coined
crate military record. Do the Republics
refer to him as traitor? Not at all. An
officer in the Army OF the United States,
educated by the Government, commissioned
by the Government, bound by the solemn
obligations of an oath to be loyal to the flag
of the Union-he tore himself away from
bis government and flag, renowned hil
allegiance, trampled upon his oath, and
fought to the death the Union armies fol
four years-snd yet he was at once taken
into the Republican fold and made com
Portable by fat federal office.
With such record on the part OF thu
Republican party, thousands of honest
manly Republicans will not tolerate the
vulgar attacks made upon Mr.. Lamar oil
any other Southern man who may be named
for federal Office.
/ It Ia not required that We should name